Friday, August 31, 2007

Friday 31 August 2007: Heidi wants you to see her hair... See it? Sarah is trying to tell you something with her eyes. But what?


Sarah says:
Heidi is probably holding her nose because we both stink of garlic from what we ate for lunch. Onions actually. I mean shallots. Strong ones. Bad aftertaste but great lunch!
It's weekend! That's a good thing. School starts for the kiddies here Monday so summer is coming to its end. It's cold. End of summer, pre-school cold. Days are darkening and shortening.
I have a home full of kids. I can hear them playing dress-up downstairs. They sound very vivid. While they sleep tonight and my husband is out at a music quiz that Heidi is at too - I will hopefully get some friends I have been wanting to call on the phone! It is very difficult to ever find time to call anyone. It barely happens. I long to talk to some friends from America but that damn 6 hour difference makes it a challenge. I hope I reach some tonight! I can't wait to see a few of them when I am in New York soon! In a little more than a month!

Anyone out there interested in buying a pretty row house right near our that has two apartments in it that you can rent-out after renovating a bit? It's Euro 165,000 ($ 225,000) to buy and needs at least Euro 20,000 ($ 27,000) of renovation so you'd be looking at Euro 200,000 ($ 275,000) at the end of the day. BUT - then you can rent out the two apartments and earn money each month - probably a combined amount of about Euro 1,100 ($ 1,500)!

Well - the kids are here now all dressed up and ready to watch TV. I have a strange feeling right now. I can't describe it well though. I have that end of summer feeling. That little dip feeling. A little darkness inside. Today I felt so happy and yesterday too and so full of good energy. But right now I have a sort of hole in my gut feeling. It will pass... I think it has to do with ends and beginnings. Saying goodbye to one thing and looking forward to another but hanging somewhere in between for the moment - one foot in the past and one in the future. I guess it just feels better to have both feet on the ground in one place and not to feel divided... Maybe that's the source of my dip feeling. Yesterday I felt like I was in the future and it felt great. Today I was more in the past than ever sort of... Time will solve it all!

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!!!!

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Thursday 30 August 2007: IT'S FACE THE DAY'S THIRD BIRTHDAY TODAY!!!! GIVE HEIDI AND SARAH A HUGE ROUND OF APPLAUSE OR THROW ROTTEN FRUIT! YOU CHOOSE!



Forget what I wrote below - ABOVE YOU CAN SEE TODAY'S FACE THE DAY PHOTO - SO FROM 30 AUGUST 2007! OKAY, OKAY - IT'S ONLY OUR 2ND BIRTHDAY TODAY - BUT IT IS OUR THIRD YEAR OF PHOTOS EACH DAY STARTING RIGHT NOW! WE HAVE CHANGED, THAT'S FOR SURE! TIME TO GROW OUR HAIR LONG AGAIN I'D SAY! WILL SARAH START DYING ALL THOSE GREY HAIRS BY THE END OF 2007/2008? WHAT HAIRSTYLE WILL HEIDI HAVE NEXT YOU THINK? WILL SARAH'S SKIN EVER CLEAR UP? WHAT NEW MUSIC TEE-SHIRT WILL HEIDI HAVE THIS YEAR? WILL SARAH EVER GET LENSES OR NEW GLASSES? STAY-TUNED TO FACE THE DAY AND SEE...

IT WILL ONLY BE LATER TODAY THAT WE POST A PHOTO OF US TODAY AS WE HAVE TO GET ONE OF US TOGETHER IN THE SAME POSITIONS AND ALL - BUT IN THE MEANTIME WE INVITE YOU TO VIEW OUR PHOTOS BELOW FROM THE LAST TWO YEARS IN A ROW! WOO HOO! PARTY!

ABOVE: LATER THIS DAY...


ABOVE YOU CAN SEE HEIDI AND SARAH
ON 30 AUGUST 2006 - 1 YEAR AGO TODAY!



AND ABOVE YOU CAN SEE HEIDI AND SARAH TWO YEARS
AGO TODAY ON 30 AUGUST 2005!!!!!!


HEIDI AND SARAH THANK YOU FOR VISITING OUR SITE! WE ENJOY IT SO MUCH AND HOPE YOU DO TOO - AT LEAST SOME OF THE TIME! WE HOPE YOU'LL STICK WITH US THROUGH 2007/2008 AS WE BOTH MOVE ON TO BIGGER AND BETTER THINGS - ALL VERY EXCITING STUFF WE'RE SURE - NEW HAIRSTYLES, FEWER ZITS, LESS BACK PAIN, MORE TRAVELS, THINGS WE NEVER EVER TELL YOU ABOUT ON HERE BUT THAT YOU CAN SEE IN OUR EYES IF YOU KNOW US WELL! AT LEAST WE HOPE SO! WE CAN'T PROMISE WE'LL KEEP GOING WITH FACE THE DAY. BUT WE SURE HOPE WE DO! HAVE A GREAT FACE THE DAY 30TH OF AUGUST!

Wednesday 29 August 2007: Sarah is crawling out from under the ugly rock...

Heidi says: I feel a bit alone today. I am thinking of that last month last year, and I wonder how I coped being home alone all the time... Maybe there was less to miss. There was no babyma to miss yet. I don't know, I guess we can blame it all on the weather and the season we're in. Autumn soon. My hair is short. I will have to learn to live with that too... :)

Sarah says:
My haircut isn't annoying me as much today. I even think it looks kind of cute. I know that Heidi went to get another haircut today so we'll see if she'll be more satisfied. I look okay today - more awake and fresh-faced than the past few days and wider-eyed. Even with that whopper of a zit smack in the middle of my cheek! I don't care. I feel a bit better too. I can bend now again - finally. But I still have a worrying ache that doesn't go away in my lower back area and across my hips. It's annoying! Just makes me turtle through my days rather than rabbit! I want to be a rabbit! The sun outside is seriously helping today. It seriously makes a difference. Puts us all in a better mood. It's sort of sad that it will be fall soon. I really am still crossing my fingers for some sort of Indian summer. A little heat to warm us all up and cheer our days. Hope it's sunny wherever you all are today!

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Tuesday 28 August 2007: Heidi got a little bit taller. Sarah wishes she were a baller. They wish they had a girl who looked good they would call her..


Sarah says:
It's another ugly day over here at Face The Day. I tried to do something with my hair but got a whole lot of nothing in return. I am sleepy. There has been virtually no sun in Belgium this summer and we all look raw and worn because of it. We need to load up on vitamin D! I'm going to grow out my hair and have long hair again. If I compare photos from the past, that's the way I have to go -- I'm a long-haired girl at heart! Isn't that interesting! One day I'll post a photo here of when I had REALLY long straight hair. Back then, I loved it. When I see photos of it though I think I looked awful! Heidi too wants a whole new hairstyle. We are searching.
By the way, only two days to go until it's a full two years that Heidi and I have been doing this Face The Day! It will be fun to be able to post photos from three years in a row... I bet you can't wait!

Below is my Post Secret pick of the week. There weren't that many I could relate to and this was the only one that caught my attention really. I'm feeling a bit older lately. Not old at all, mind you! But I do feel that I am headed towards my 40s. I kind of like that because I know what I want. I know what I like. I enjoy things a lot more now because I generally make better choices. I use my time better. I surround myself with people I love as far as possible and I don't waste as much time with people and things that aren't meaningful to me anymore. On the other hand, I see limits too. At some point, I guess when kids come along and responsibility from work to marriage and all that - I guess you do lose some of that free spirit. You only miss it sometimes. But you do miss it... I guess it's just because you can hardly make even one decision without checking it first with someone else... No biggy. Just something that sometimes feels too bad!

Monday, August 27, 2007

Monday 27 August 2007: Sarah HATES her haircut. Heidi hates her nose. It's all just temporary hate thankfully! No love to spread today...


Sarah says:
I got a haircut Friday and I hate how it looks. Oh well! It will grow. I keep going shorter and shorter because I am getting greyer and greyer so my hair is getting more and more coarse. But if I see myself in this photo and those from the days before, well, suffice it to say: UGLY!!!
Heidi hates her nose today - in the photos we took anyway - so in the one above she is turning away. It's just one of those days. We both have that sort of worn-out look. But it goes away from day to day. We'll be just fine. And no, we don't have the same haircut so screw you!
Heidi says:
Nothing interesting to see today. Just very boring, that face of mine...

Heidi says: I changed my mind...

Sarah says:
By the way, the below photo is not of my foot - don't worry! My back may feel broken indeed but so far the rest of me is okay. It's a photo of my brother's (NSM) broken toe, which got broken during a volleyball match, the poor dear. Isn't the body amazing. Just look at that x-ray. JJJ! Heal well NSM! Is that the same toe you lost a toe-nail on?

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Sunday 26 August 2007: Sarah spends her last day in Namur and has some photos to show for it...






Sarah says:
Above you can see some mixed photos from today and yesterday in Namur - including the one right above which says "vomit for rent". Last night we went to the biggest flea market I have ever been to - in Temploux, near Namur. My daughter was a trooper. We had to park miles and miles away and we walked and walked till late. We didn't buy anything but she got a barbie, a ceramic coyote and a wind-up dinosaur. Today we took a boat ride down the river in Namur and headed back home. Tomorrow starts a new week. I wish I could have a few more long weekends like this one and last weekend's. I have so very much enjoyed these wonderful moments with my husband and daughter. It's so good to get away...

And -- though my back still hurts and my neck and shoulders now do too - I can take it! It is getting better for sure! It's taking its dang time. But it will all be good.

Saturday 25 August 2007: Sarah has a lovely long weekend in Namur...






Sarah says:
Above you can see a bunch of photos from my lovely little family weekend get-away to Namur. We even got to swim a little at the hotel. Namur is a delightful and pretty city below a huge citadel and along a long river. It's full of stylish shops and little cobblestone alley roads, such as the one above on a street we ate on.

Friday, August 24, 2007

Friday 24 August 2007: Sarah wants to welcome her Face The Day special guests - Led Zeppelin! In her dreams...


Sarah says:
Man I had such a clear and memorable dream that I met Led Zeppelin at a festival type-thingy and I was hanging out with them and convinced Robert Plant to take a photo with me so that when my brother NSM looked at Face The Day he'd be so proud as he and all of us were huge Led Zep fans and he still is. Anyway, after Robert Plant made himself pretty for the photo, we went to an area where there were fewer people to get a good shot. I was holding the camera up as usual to snap the photo of me and Mr. Plant and noticed that Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham's replacement were also standing around wanting to be in the photo with us. So I yelled for someone to take the photo and a guy said he would but then he got distracted while holding my camera. Time was-a-tickin and Led Zep were getting annoyed. Finally I got my camera out of the guy's hands and found a girl who was willing to take the photo, but by the time I turned around, Led Zep were on their way to a stage and too far from me to get a picture. I was SOOOOO SAD!!!! I was so looking forward to having a photo of me with Led Zep on here! Then I saw Brad Pitt and George Michael doing some odd slither dance on their backs up some stairs as if they were wrapped in mud and had no limbs. I thought - hmm - maybe I can get them in a Face The Day photo. But I saw they were doing a performance to bring attention to what land mines can do so I didn't disturb them. Then I found Heidi and Nico and Tom and I woke up!

I'm off to Namur soon. I won't be on here till Sunday I'm guessing so I hope Heidi will do some Face The day pics for tomorrow. Have a good weekend!!!!

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Thursday 23 August 2007: Guess why Sarah is so happy!


Sarah says:
Finally!


Heidi says: Did the man see the dog, Sarah?

Sarah adds later:
HA HA Heiditje! This women saw the man about the dog INDEED!!! Woo Hoo! Wekkend, here I come! Just to help you Dutch speakers, here's a translation of our lovely English expression. Anyone but Heidi know what it means?!"Om een man over een hond te zien"

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Wednesday 22 August 2007: Heidi and Sarah look manly. You can call them Hein and Sven today.


Sarah says:
Heidi sent me song lyrics to post on here along with some comments but I don't have them handy now so she might get a little annoyed with me. I did try. But it didn't work. I'll try again tomorrow to post her comments onto here. They are meant to help you understand her nostalgia.
As for me, I am nostalgic for the last time I was able to go to the "big toilet" as Belgians would say. These pills are really screwing up my "transit" as Belgians would say. It's been 4 long days now! Before that it was 7! My poor, poor intestines! I am sorry to share all this 'too much information" with you but one should never be ashamed of such things as this happens to us all from time to time! I need tips! I have already gone down the fiber route. I think I'm going to now take these huge granules if fiber that I had to take after my back operation. They only kick in in about 1 or 2 days but they are natural at least. I can't go adding more bad stuff to my body. My back hurts a lot more from all this I am 100% sure. The one thing is very related to the other. No fun kiddies! No fun!

Here are Heidi's comments I couldn't post yesterday:
Heidi says:
This is it. This is what I am talking about. Nostalgia. I always feel weird when I hear this song. I never thought about why I was feeling that way (stupid...). Now I understand. It's nostalgia. What do you think, Wout? This is what we were talking about, isn't it?

A very good year - Frank Sinatra

When I was seventeen
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for small town girls
And soft summer nights
We'd hide from the lights
On the village green
When I was seventeen

When I was twenty-one
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for city girls
Who lived up the stair
With all that perfumed hair
And it came undone
When I was twenty-one

When I was thirty-five
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls
Of independent means
We'd ride in limousines
Their chauffeurs would drive
When I was thirty-five

But now the days grow short
I'm in the autumn of the year
And now I think of my life as vintage wine
From fine old kegs
From the brim to the dregs
And it poured sweet and clear
It was a very good year

It was a mess of good years

Heidi adds:
I have only had very good years in my life. And life just keeps getting better :)

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Tuesday 21 August 2007: The nostalgie digests Heidi and Sarah can say that Heidi a beautiful life has had and she in her head could look with...


Sarah says:
bad photos these days, don't you think? Face the Day is all over the place. Heidi and I see each other almost everyday now and we have very quickly run out of new photo ideas. Did you now that in just 9 days from now it will be 2 whole years since we have been doing Face The Day together???!!! Even more actually - but our site before was hacked and we lost everything. I think we had started it around June 2005. Anyway - that doesn't count. What does count is this one! Two whole years! You do know this means a triple-whammy photo walk down memory lane starting on the 30th of August and going till the 1st of September! Woo hoo! Party! We're sick.

Heidi says: Die heimwee, die heimwee, gaat die ooit over? Zal ik ooit oud zijn en met overtuiging kunnen zeggen dat ik een mooi leven heb gehad en mooie herinneringen bezit, maar dat ik tevreden ben, en niks hoef over te doen?
De nostalgie verteert me weer. Gelukkig niet zo erg dat ik de ganse dag zit te mijmeren, want mijn job houdt me redelijk bezig. Maar 's avonds moet je me eens bezig zien. Welja, veel is er niet aan te zien. Maar in dat hoofd speelt zich toch wat af hoor.
Ik zou het wel prettig vinden, mocht de wetenschap zo gevorderd zijn, dat met een simpele ingreep, iemand in mijn hoofd zou kunnen meekijken, en vooral meevoelen.
Misschien zou dat alles wat lichter maken, als iemand die gevoelens en gedachten met me zou kunnen delen. Ze zijn niet eens zo erg, die gedachten. Maar ze overweldigen me wel, en maken me week. Ze bezorgen me een soort weemoed, en een soort pijn, en ik wil die pijn beschrijven maar geraak nooit dichtbij. Misschien is het geen pijn. Want pijn is enkel voor negatieve dingen. En mijn herinneringen zijn alles behalve negatief. Ze zijn zo goed, dat ik ze terug wil beleven.
Mijn zwangerschap, mijn eerste nacht en dag met Yma, toen ik niet kon slapen omdat ik niet wou stoppen met ze te bekijken, die week in de kliniek, mijn tijd thuis met mijn kindje. Dat zijn de herinneringen die me overvallen als ik 's avonds naar haar kijk in haar bedje. Of als het donker begint te worden om negen uur. Herfstweer helpt natuurlijk ook niet echt om een luchtig gevoel te hebben. Mijn dochter wordt volgende maand 1 jaar. Kan iemand alstublieft de tijd stilzetten?

Sarah adds: In case you are wondering what Heidi wrote above, here is a loose translation (hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!)

"That home sickness, which home sickness proceeds, that ever? Will I be ever old and with conviction can say that I a beautiful life has had and beautiful memories has, but that I am satisfied, and must repeat nothing?
The nostalgie digests me. Fortunately not this way terrible that I sit the entire day, muse because my job occupies me rather. But at night you must see me once busy. Well ya, much are not look there. But that head nevertheless anticipates himself what finished hears.
I would find it, however, pleasant, could science this way progressed be that with a simple intervention, someone in my head could look with, and especially will sympathise.
Perhaps all that what barge to make, if someone who could share feelings and ideas with me. They are not even this way terrible, that ideas.
But they overwhelm me and make me yielded. They provide me a type courage, and a type pain, and I want describe that pain but attain never near. Perhaps it is no pain. Because pain is only for negative things. And my memories are everything except negative. They are this way well, I want that live them.
My pregnancy, my first night and day with Yma, then I could not sleep because I did not want stop with them to examine, which weak in the clinic, my time at home with my little baby. That is the memories which me assaulted if I look at at night to its in its bedje. Or if obscurity starts become at nine o'clock. Fall weather does not help of course also real a light to have feeling. My for the becomes next month 1 year. Can someone stop please the time?"

Monday, August 20, 2007

Monday 20 August 2007: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SARAH'S DAD!!!! Heidi and Sarah are swelling up and will soon burst!


Sarah says:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!!! In the above photo we are blowing out your candles. We wish you a great year! It's good to see you healthier than ever as you grow old!

Sarah adds:
Above you can see Our Lady of Ittre - the one my kid lit a candle for on Sunday when we went to see our lady to ask her to make my back better! As you know, I am not a believer - but I still wanted to go say hello to our lady and the priest there said he wanted to say a prayer for me that night, which was very kind of him. It's great when other people wish you well and make wishes for you. I wish I could believe in wishes more...

Sarah continues:
And above you can see another view of the place we stayed this past weekend in Ittre. It's called Haras de Baudemont and I urge everyone to book a room there. Look how happy my kid looks there! She felt like the Queen of the castle!

And finally Sarah finishes...
Above is my Post Secret pick of the week about eating disorders. I just think this person is trying to be funny or is totally in denial. So many of us know what this person means! We think our ways to try to get skinny are healthy ones and that we are doing it right. We make up our own plans and abide by them and think they are the best for us and are doing us no harm. What do we know! Wanting to be skinny and trying and trying your whole life becomes some kind of sickness no matter what eventually if you ask me. It may not always be harmful for the body because I am sure there are indeed right ways to go about it. But as we go on and on with the never-ending goal, it certainly becomes some kind of sickness in the head! I haven't been worrying that much about my weight lately. Then I saw photos of myself this weekend and I wanted to starve myself! Nice!!! Sick, sick, sick!

Part 2: Sarah's Saturday and Sunday 17 &18 August 2007: Sarah has a GREAT weekend away with her little family at a lovely farm!


Sarah says:
Sorry for the swimsuit photo but I had to get at least one SUMMER photo in here this year! It wasn't even very warm outside! But there was a pool where we stayed and we just had to take advantage of it! My kid had a blast! It was so great swimming right next to a field of pretty horses. My kid cried when we left because she had had such a great time! We turned our phones off. Didn't watch any TV. No computers! It was pure nature, all family. Wonderful and about time!

In the above photo, you can see me with my sister horse. Don't we look alike?

Look how red we are? It wasn't even that warm or sunny but the sun was strong enough to turn us a little red. You can't see it, but in the above photo we are sitting in a huge, empty field of straw watching the sun go down. Lovely!

The above photo was taken on Sunday. We visited the sloping lock of Ronquieres. We took a boat ride on it and had to walk 25 minutes back to the main place. Of course just then it rained so hard and we got so wet. But it didn't ruin our day or mood. We had such a fab time!

Above you can see the old but restored farmhouse where we stayed. It's not the best photo. I'll try to post some others later so you can see just how pretty it all was! If you get the chance, I urge you all to go stay there. It's called Haras de Baudemont in Ittre, about 15 minutes south of Brussels. It's a perfect place for a family get-away if you want rest and relaxation. Only 8 people at a time can stay there. It's perfect for kids around 8 years old who are into horses. We will certainly return!

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Sunday 19 August 2007: It's carnival in k-town






Heidi says: It was carnival in Kortrijk today and it was fun: different rythmic bands with dancers were walking/dancing around all over town. Yma seemed impressed and we were impressed! Lovely!

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Saturday 18 August 2007: De grootste krotekedul voor de baby



Heidi says: We made 'de grootste krotekedul' for yma and she loves it! See our nice atmosphere at Nico's birthday party and the shirts I made for him (well, I only did the painting...).
Now something totally different. It is happening again. I feel nostalgic about last year. The weather is changing, the light outside is different, it is dark earlier in the evening, it feels like autumn is coming and I haven't really felt the summer yet. Why is the time flying like this? But that is not all... I mostly feel nostalgic about last year, because I was pregnant then, lying on our terrace roof, waiting for Yma to come. The time went so slow, and if I think about then, I really had cosy times. I even realised that then: I remember telling my friend Wout that it was hard sometimes, to have to lie down all the time and to be bored like this, but that later I would feel nostalgic about that time. I was right. Now I feel a bit lonely. No one can share this feeling with me. No one can understand what is going through my head. Year after year I think that I will grow up, and that I will become less and less nostalgic and mellow. But it stays. Maybe it's not about being adult. Maybe that is just who I am... I will have to learn to live with it. And why not? Maybe it is a beautiful thing to be nostalgic about the past, and to be grateful...

Friday, August 17, 2007

Friday 17 August 2007: Sarah has gone totally grey! AND NICO IS 1 YEAR OLDER TODAY!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY NICO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Heidi says: great fun on Nico's birthday!!!

Sarah says:
See what stress can do to you?! I have gone grey! Good thing I am about to leave on a relaxing weekend to a B&B with my husband and kid! We'll be staying at an old horse ranch in that village I mentioned that is famous for it's "lady" who cures back problems. You can be sure this old lady will be begging for a miracle while there!!!! This can't just be a coincidence! I'm telling you! It's meant to be! (haha)! The most important part of my day was something I won't spell out here but will just allude to for the reading pleasure/horror of those of you who can relate to such things. Let's just say that last Friday night - yes- 7 days ago - 1 week ago - I got such horrid belly and intestinal problems that I was in the bathroom half the night. It was awful. But I survived. It was due to the pain-killers I was on then - the ones that murdered my stomach. Anyway - if you can believe it, I have not been able to go to the toilet since then - seriously -- 7 whole days. It didn't even bother me that much until yesterday- when the cramping started. And it certainly could have only made my back pain worse. I have been eating the things you should eat when having "transit" trouble- but with no results. Until finally this afternoon - thank the Lord - it worked! It was difficult. But finally!!!!!! Man do I feel all the better for it! IT was really about time! It's certainly due to the pain killers. I just don't do well on them. That's why I'll never become a drug addict? i have a wuss of a belly! I feel about 20 kilos lighter! Seriously. It was a GIFT today!

Speaking of gifts, it's Nico's birthday today Yes - that's right, Heidi's Nico!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NICO!!!! HAVE A GREAT DAY, YEAR, LIFE!!!!

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Thursday 16 August 2007: Heidi and Sarah are the asses now...


Sarah says:
From Heidi's entry yesterday it sounds like she thinks this blog should only be about photos. I know she's being polite and all in saying that she was just trying to say she and I are different and have different approaches -- but any jackass can see through that -- what she's really saying is that I am too wordy -- not that she isn't wordy enough... So what to do, what to do, what to do... Turn Heidi into an Ass of course as every picture tells a story, don't it?! And to be diplomatic as to not hurt Heidi's feelings, I had to turn myself into an Ass as well. So we are both asses. The photo tells the story as Heidi wishes. And I remain too wordy! So we both win and end up happy! Yippy!!!


Heidi says: VIVA ELVIS!!!!!!

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Wednesday 15 August 2007: Sarah is on drugs and Heidi eats icecream!!!


Sarah says:
These pain-killers are no joke. By day I am drowsy and dreamy. By night I am in la la land. I still feel a lot of pain though - that's the strange part. I feel it but it doesn't bother me as much or prevent me from getting through my day. I guess that is because these pills are working on my brain - telling it to handle the pain. I still don't feel like anything has changed or is making progress or getting any better - but my head is in a bit of a haze so it is hard to say.
Today is a holiday in Belgium so I am home. I got to sleep late after a fun and very noisy evening of playing a game with friends. It was so loud and crazy as usual. I love that my house can hold all of these people. I love all these laughs and being silly. I love winning and I WON!!!!! (for once!) It hurt sitting on a chair for so many hours, though these drugs I am on helped dull the pain and take the edge off. But I was having so much fun and there were so many loudmouths-laughing heads to distract me, I felt relief more than anything else. Pain or no pain I am so thankful for all the good stuff and great, fun, caring people in my life! I can't complain, really!

By the way - I think I know who keeps making comments about my "cleave" (ASG!!!!) - she's Face The Day's Cleave Tracker it seems. Well ASG, let me share this little advice with you - go to Hunkemoler (spelling?) and look for the new soft cottong padded bra. It's seriously the best shaped and sized bra I have ever had. It does wonders with "cleave". You too, my dear, can get yourself such cleave just by a trip to the shop and a little over 20 Euros! I love it so much I think I will buy it in white as well.


Heidi says: I think I am the opposite of Sra when it comes to the writing on this site. I am just not into so many words. They don't flow like Sarah's words and I don't really wanna tell much with words. It's up to you to see what the picture means and I also actually think this blog doesn't mean more than a picture with some explanation. I mean, it is what it is and it's worth existing (if not for the world, then for ourselves). Oh what the hell! I am trying to explain why I am not writing as much as sra but I guess I just have to say we have a different view and approach and that's okay! NICE ICE CREAM BY THE WAY!!!!!